Game apparatus.



No. 648,96l. v Patented May 8, 1900. D. G. HURD.

GAME APPARATUS.

(Application filed Aug. 11, 1899.)

5 -65 WITNESSES. 'NVENTOR K BY ATTORNEY:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DELMAR G. HURD, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALFRED MOLEOD, OF SAME PLACE, AND ILLIAM B. PENDLETON, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAMEAPPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,961, dated May 8,1900.

Application filed August 11, 1899. Serial No. 726,860. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern: verse lines (1 into spaces d, which in each Be it known that I, DELMAR G. HURD, acitiwing are equal in number to the spaces b of zen of the United States, and a resident of the dial and are consecutively numbered from Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State end to end of the series. In each wing the of Massachusetts, have invented certain new line d between the spaces numbered 6 and '7 and useful Improvements in Game Apparais heavier than the other lines d to indicate tus, of which the following is a specification. a point beyond which a player is allowed a My invention relates to game apparatus double play, as hereinafter described. A and comprises a board or plate having a cenlarger space d at the outer end of each wing to tral dial with numbered radial spaces, a serves as a goal and is preferably marked with pointer pivoted centrally of the dial and capathe Word Goal. ble of being moved over said numberedspaces, Between the wings D D D .D and outside wings which extend radially from the dial and of the dial are arranged four equal series of are divided by transverse lines into spaces radial spaces E E E E each of said series I 5 equal in number to the numbered spaces of containing, preferably, an odd number of the dial, these wing-spaces being numbered spaces, the middle space in each series havconsecutively from end to end of each wing, .ing a distinguishingmark e to indicate a and other unnumbered radial spaces, prefersafety-spot.

ably arranged outside of said dial and be- Near the corners of the board A may be 20 tween said wings. marked spaces F F F F, on which to lay the In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is counters'when not in use in a well-known a plan of my game apparatus folded; Fig. 2, manner. The counters or markers may be a plan of the same open; Fig. 3, a central verthe usual thin disks commonly used in games tical section of the dial part of the board and most nearly resembling this or pins, such'as 25 a side elevation of the pointer or index and are used in playing cribbage, to be inserted its pivot. in holes in the different spaces on the wings A indicates the board or plate on which the and of the series E E E E such counters game is played. A dial B is for convenience and pins being well known and not of my placed at the middle of the board, said dial invention. r 0 being divided by radial lines 1) into spaces 1), It will be understood that the central posiwhich are consecutively numbered, twelve of tion of the dial and pointer is merely one of these spaces b being shown. A pointer or inconvenience and symmetry, as the counters dex 0 turns freely on a vertical stud or pivot do not move over the spaces of said dial. 0, arranged concentrically with the dial B, The board A is adapted to be folded when 35 and when whirled byastroke of the finger innot in use on the lines ct a a a the parts dicates in stopping a numbered space I) at being hinged on these lines, and the corners each end of said pointer. The pivot c is reof the board are cut away at a a a a to allow movable from the board A, being secured on the pivot c to project up through the top of a block 0, the upper portion of which is of the folded board, as shown in Fig. 1. 40 such a shape as when fitted in a hole a of cor- Various games may be played on this board,

responding shape, (said hole being representone of which I will describe. ed as square in Fig. 2,) to prevent said block A number of players, two or more, (the from turning in said board, the lower portion board as shown will accommodate four play- 0 of said block being larger than said hole ers)for instance, two players-arrange the 45 and stopping the block when the same is board between them. The leading player 5 pushed up from the under side of the board may be the one who gets the highest or lowest far enough into said hole. number (as may be agreed) on the dial by The wings D D D .D are two or of any turning the pointer with a lateral stroke of even number and extend radially outward the finger before beginning the game, noting 50 from the dial B and are divided by transthe figure of the space over which an end of we the pointer stops. The first player then turns the pointer and places two counters on the spaces at of the win g nearest him indicated by the ends of the pointer on the dial. The second player plays in a similar manner, each player entering the wing nearest him and using two counters at atime and the players playing alternately. At his second play each player places two other counters on his wing, using four counters in all. Each player adds to his previous count the spaces indicated in subsequent plays, passing his counters along to the inner end of his wing and then through the next adjacent series of radial spaces E, E, E or E to the wing-spaces first entered by his opponent, using only the space cl nearest the dial Bin passing through a wing from one radial series to another and through his opponents wing to the goal of said wing. Each player in going out of his own wing through the space thereof nearest the dial B may turn to the right or left with any or all of his counters, and when one players count brings one of his counters to the space occupied by one only of his opponents counters the latter is removed from the board to the proper space F F F F and the counter so removed must again start from the beginning, except that a counter rightfully occupying a radial space having a safety-spot 6 cannot be thus removed from the board by an opposing player, who may in this case move his counter to any radial space beyond said occupied safetyspot if his count is large enough. When one player has two of his counters on the same space, none of the counters of the other player can stop on that space nor can the first two counters in possession be removed therefrom. In this way one or more counters, in rare cases all the counters of one player, may be blocked'until the other player has counted enough to place some of the latters counters beyond the blocked counters or upon spaces occupied by single blocked counters, such single counters being thereby removed from the board, as above stated. When a player has passed into his opponents wing with any or all of his counters and'beyond the barrier or heavy line (1 between wing-spaces 6 and 7, said player is allowed two consecutive spins of the pointer, because one end of the pointer is sure to indicate a higher number than is necessary to carry these passed counters into the goal, and both ends of said pointer mayindicate such excessive numbers, it being necessary in order to win out that the number should be just sufficient to carry the counter to the goal, counting the latter as one space. In like manner three or m ore persons mayplay on the board A.

I claim as my invention- 1. A game apparatus consisting of a board having a dial divided into an even number of consecutively-numbered radial spaces, a double pointer having a pivot, concentric with said dial, wings, extending radially from said dial to the edge of said board, each wing being divided transverselyinto a series of consecutively-numbered spaces equal in number to the spaces of said dial, and a series of radial spaces between each wing and the next, each wing having a barrier or heavier transverse line to divide the wing into two equal parts.

2. The combination with a board, havinga dial, with numbered spaces, and having a hole concentric with said dial, of a block, having an upper part adapted to be pushed up through said hole and to fill said hole, said block and hole being correspondingly shaped to prevent said block from turning in said hole, and said block having a base or lower part larger than said hole, a pointer supported and turning on said block above said board and a pivot, to retain said pointer on said block.

3. The combination with the board having a central dial with numbered spaces, a block, having a pivot, arranged centrally of said board and dial, said board having contiguous hinged corner parts and cut-away corners, to allow said parts to be folded with the edges of each corner part in contact with the edges of the next corner parts and said block to project from the top of the folded board between said corner parts.

In testimony whereof I have ailixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

DELMAR G. IIURD. Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, OTIS R. ATHERTON. 

